Reserve_22//. - Board 2

Awesome hack, played through the whole thing. The rooms were interesting, I enjoyed what you did with the enemy boos in the first room after Laki-Laki. I like the custom animations you did, as well as the enemies that used them.
I thought you used the music with the manipulated pitch pretty well. I like how you used the sprite effects on some NPCs, really gave it a unique feeling overall.

I'm really curious how you did the end boss cutscene. I'm taking a guess at how you did it:

Spoiler:
You slowly set the entire screen white, then changed the level palette and removed all sprites except Mario. Then you changed the level to Culex's room and had Geno pre-positioned in there. Then you did a bunch of event script stuff that I'm going to skip because it'll be tedious to list it all.

Please explain this when you get a chance.

All in all, the hack was pleasant to play through. Although the hack was short, I think you did very good on the atmosphere of the whole thing. It felt very mysterious, I felt anxious almost while playing. So I think you hit a good note, well done.

I have some bugs/complaints in the spoiler below:

Spoiler:
- You can jump over the first event in the game.
- The map with the first introduction of the Spirit Bombs shows the corner of another map on the right.
- In the path puzzle room, you can just go through window and skip the entire puzzle (it really threw me off when I accidentally went in there).
- Are there any formations with the Shy Ghoul?
- Could the second shop also carry the weaker potions? I don't want to pay 25 coins for get a potion that a 5 coin potion can do (FP potions).
- You misspelled "Sheild Order", should be "Shield Order"
- You can run away from the 2nd to last battle.

Suggests:
- If you can figure out how level 453's entire map had a shaded layer, use that effect in Geno's room. For some reason if you test it in LS it doesn't show up.
- In the room of the last screen shot in your opening post, maybe move the Murky Boos to the beginning of the narrow water path. Once you are on the pathway, a trigger is set and they begin to chase you down the path. If they catch you, you get sent back to the beginning of room. It was just a thought, since the Murky Boos go through the layers in the level, thought it could reduce glitchiness without removing an obstacle.

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